... while I speak some lectures...

here below a beautiful image of my presentation in Turkey last May...

me standing on the right side..(the big image is the Turkish President)

and here few photos of my presentation at the important conference about swine wastewater treatment with treatment wetlands held in Italy and organized by www.artecambiente.it. I have made two post about this project. ( fitosuini )

Tree House with treatment wetland!!!

Oh Yes, here in Italy we have a lot of problems... but also good ideas. Take a look at this good realization in north of Italy at the Azienda Agricola OASI di Davide Carlini a Certosa di Pavia (PV) where ArtecAmbiente built this special treatment wetland. This is a rural house (Agriturismo in Italian language) where you can spend your holidays and free time in the countryside... and also taste the good hand made beer produced by the howner (http://www.birrificiorurale.it).

photo from www.fitodepurazione.blogspot,com

the plant is Horizontal, 20 sq meters, planted ith juncus, typha and the beautiful lythrum salicaria.

Enjoy also the presentation video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mHLfNoXIzKY

world wetland 2012 conference IWA

Hallo Wetlanders, I remind you the important upcoming conference in Australia: WETLAND2012

13th conference on WETLAND SYSTEMS FOR WATER POLLUTION CONTROL

IWA Specialist Group on the Use of Macrophytes in Water Pollution Control 

Hosted and Organised by Murdoch University Perth, Western Australia 

in collaboration with IWA and AWA

25-29 November 2012

CONFERENCE BROCHURE available at:

http://www.promaco.com.au/events/WetlandConferenceBrocure.pdf

Description from the official web site ( http://www.promaco.com.au ):

The major aim of the Conference is to bring together researchers and professionals to discuss new evelopments and exchange experiences in the field of constructed wetland systems. The Conference will highlight the latest improvements and achievements in the treatment of urban storm water runoff, domestic and municipal wastewaters, agricultural and industrial effluents.

Conference Topics:

Process Dynamics

Management and Control

Case studies

Design criteria

Economics

Environmental issues and operation policies

CW Components

Modelling of wetland treatment processes

Systems with enhanced/active aeration

Floating emergent macrophyte wetlands

Suitability of treatment wetlands for developing countries

Removal of pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, surfactants and 

other emerging pollutants

Stormwater and industrial wastewater treatment

Mine water treatment

Combined algal systems

Wetland and waterway restoration

Non point source pollution control

Limitations and lessons to be learn

World Toilet Day - 19 November

Today is World Toilet Day which is closely tied to Millenium Development Goals number 7 that aims to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Around the world, 1.1 billion people defecate in the open, contaminating their environments and water sources and spreading diseases like diarrhoea, which kills 2,000 children under 5 every day. 

I think is the time to do something. 

Me and an italian colleague (Mauro Lajo of www,fitodepurazione.blogspot.com) are working to do that. We are developing two project to promote the safe sanitation and spreading the use of toilets. Contact us if you want be part of the team.

Let' go to build a treatment wetlands, let' go to build a reedbed, let's go to build a constructed wetlands... let's go to do somethings!